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Palin Makes Her First Gaffe: Claims Fannie/Freddie Are Taxpayer Funded »
Posted by: Neophile 2 months, 1 week ago in News
Speaking before voters in Colorado Springs, the Republican vice presidential nominee claimed that lending giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had "gotten too big and ...
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US Government To Help Struggling Home Owners Pay Their Mortgage »
Posted by: lovemorgul 6 days ago in News
Homeowners in the United States are to benefit from a new agreement between the government and the mortgage industry. Under the deal, up to four ...
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Obama's Chief of Staff Tied to Freddie Mac Collapse- Recieved $250,000 »
Posted by: pc25 1 week, 3 days ago in News
During the campaign, Barack Obama had to fight off assertions that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae had him in their pocket while the two GSEs ...
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Fannie, Freddie disclose subpoenas, investigations »
Posted by: FSU92grad 1 month, 2 weeks ago in News
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Adding to their woes, mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are facing a federal grand jury investigation into their accounting practices.
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You Call this Change? Obama's Bailout Bunch Brings Us More of the Same »
Posted by: pc25 6 days, 19 hours ago in News
Nov. 11 (Bloomberg) -- It's hard to believe Barack Obama would even think of calling this change.
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Democrats Blocked Fannie Mae Reforms »
Posted by: y_soitenly 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
The current crisis in the financial markets is the direct result of Democrats forcing lenders into the subprime mortgage business and allowing Clinton cronies to ...
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Video: Democrats insist “nothing wrong” at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac in 2004 while Republicans call for more regulation »
Posted by: pc25 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Politics
By 2004, all of the elements of the current financial collapse had been in place for several years. The aggressive approach to enforcing the Community ...
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McCain Aide?s Firm Was Paid by Freddie Mac »
Posted by: ameliog 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Politics
One of the giant mortgage companies at the heart of the credit crisis paid $15,000 a month from the end of 2005 through last ...
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Did Frank have a conflict of interest at Fannie Mae? »
Posted by: RedRiverJ 1 month, 1 week ago in Politics
Now that Congress has passed the bailout emergency liquidity bill, we can expect that both Democrats and Republicans will attempt to define the catastrophic failures ...
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Are Fannie and Freddie Too Big to Fail? »
Posted by: populist 2 months ago in Politics
Neither the US Treasury nor the US central bank can create real savings. In order to keep the failing FF going, the taxpayers will be ...
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\'Crony\' Capitalism Is Root Cause Of Fannie And Freddie Troubles »
Posted by: FairNBalanced 1 month, 3 weeks ago in News
In the past couple of weeks, as the financial crisis has intensified, a new talking point has emerged from the Democrats in Congress: This is ...
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McCain?s Suspension Bridge to Nowhere »
Posted by: gamahuche 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Politics
WHAT we learned last week is that the man who always puts his “ country first” will take the country down with him if that' s ...
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Video: Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac the Democrats Enron »
Posted by: pc25 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Politics
The Bush administration frog-marched executives from Enron, Tyco, and Worldcom into federal prison for their financial shenanigans, in collapses that look positively microscopic in the ...
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Fannie, Freddie, and Repeating Economic History »
Posted by: populist 2 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
The conventional opinions on the Fannie and Freddie bailout are not terribly broad. From the Left, we hear recycled market-failure arguments, whereas from the Right ...
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Bill O'Reilly vs Barney Frank »
Posted by: RedRiverJ 1 month, 2 weeks ago in Politics
Calling all crooks, calling all crooks. O'Reilly calls for Chris Cox chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission, Chris Dodd (D) and Barney Frank (D ...
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